2024-08-22 09:50:21
Him independent candidate to the White House Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be announced this afternoon at an event in Arizona the end of his election campaignaccording to several American media reports indicating that he is negotiating a transfer to the positions of the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
“There are ongoing conversations within the Republican presidential candidate group Donald Trump and Kennedy’s roll for an independent candidate to endorse the former president and appear at Trump’s rally in Phoenix (Arizona) on the same night (Friday),” a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The newspaper ‘The New York Times’ also reviewed Kennedy’s alleged plans to announce the end of his campaign for the presidential elections on November 5 and confirmed that he did so because lack of funds and because it is lose support among voters.
Kennedy’s campaign limited itself to noting that the independent candidate “will address the nation” from Phoenix, Arizona, this Friday, without giving details about the content of that message.
According to a Washington Post / ABC News / Ipsos survey conducted earlier this month, the voter turnout for Kennedy was then 5%, compared to 47% for the Vice President. Kamala Harriswho will be the Democratic candidate, and 44% of the Republican Trump.
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The son of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated, Robert Kennedy Jr., 70, announced in April 2023 his Democratic primary candidate in order to compete in the presidential election, challenge the president Joe Bidenwho at the time planned to seek re-election, but later resigned in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.
But in October last year he left the party and ran as an independent candidate for the White House.
Sources consulted by CNN said that discussions between Trump’s friends and advisers and Kennedy’s team began before the Republican National Convention in July.
“I like him and I respect him,” the former president told CNN on Tuesday about Kennedy, who was also referred to as a “wise” man who knows “for a long time.”
Trump indicated in an interview in Michigan, where he is traveling as part of his election campaign, that he did not know that Kennedy was considering withdrawing his candidacy for the presidency but also said that if he did so “of course” knowledge to think to join his Administration, if he wins the elections.
Trump’s comments came after Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, indicated in a podcast on Tuesday that the Kennedy campaign was considering dropping out of the race for the White House to “join forces” with Trump, against Harris.
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